Smart Light Bulb, Smart Plug, Dual Switch, Relay Switch and other by Shelly

Tera Communications SA is a Bulgarian company that develops Shelly product line:

• Shelly Bulb - a Smart WiFi RGB+W Light Bulb,
• Shelly Plug - a Wi-Fi Smart Plug,
• Shelly 1 - a Wi-Fi switch,
• Shelly 2 - a Wi-Fi Dual Switch / Roller Shutter,
• Shelly 4Pro - a 4 Channels WiFi Connected Relay Switch,
• Shelly Sense - a Wi-Fi Multisensor & Universal remote controls,
• Shelly RGBW2 - a Wi-Fi solution for LED strips,
• Shelly H&T - a Wi-Fi Humidity & Temperature sensor,
• Shelly Smoke - a Wi-Fi Smoke and Temperature Sensor.
• Shelly Gas - a WiFi-operated Gas sensor.
• Shelly Door Window - a WiFi-operated Door Window 2 sensor.

These products are launched to the market and based on the ESP8266 and TI CC3200 microcontrollers.

Tera Communications evaluated different possible approaches, including: doing it all from the scratch based on the vendor-provided SDKs; using an Arduino layer; stitching together various pieces of open-source libraries and solutions.
Mongoose OS was selected as it enables an out of the box Over-The-Air updates, application data storage, proper HTTP server and networking library implementation, user configuration mechanisms which were a must have for the production devices.

“Our first targets were Shelly 2 and Shelly 4 Pro based on ESP8266 and CC3200 respectively. We had somewhat-working firmware for Shelly 2 based on the Arduino core, but it was too glitchy and unreliable. OTA often failed with a bricked device.” says Kiril Zyapkov, a lead Software Engineer.

Working with Mongoose OS

Mongoose OS allowed for a faster and simpler development for the Tera Communications team and a high level of flexibility for their solution.
“It grew as we worked. There were a few hiccups along the way when we bumped Mongoose OS - new features, API changes, etc. But most issues were addressed and resolved promptly by Mongoose OS team. Don't trust documentation, look at the code instead. It's beautiful anyway.” we heard from Tera Communications.

Mongoose OS was used to shorten the iteration loop creating firmware for Shelly products.
Kiril Zyapkov continues: “We are now used to having all the goodies Mongoose OS provides: critical housekeeping features, utilities, networking protocols. We have brought devices from zero to a working firmware in a couple of days. That wouldn't be possible without Mongoose OS”.

Company

Tera Communications SA

Launched in

Europe

Products

Shelly Bulb
Shelly Plug
Shelly 1
Shelly 2
Shelly 4Pro
Shelly Sense
Shelly RGBW2
Shelly H&T
Shelly Smoke
Shelly Gas
Shelly Door Window

“We have brought devices from zero to a working Firmware in a couple of days. That wouldn't be possible without Mongoose OS” - Kiril Zyapkov, Lead Software Engineer